{"id":420,"date":"2010-11-08T13:51:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T13:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/11\/you-are-what-you-eat.html"},"modified":"2010-11-08T13:51:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T13:51:33","slug":"you-are-what-you-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/11\/you-are-what-you-eat.html","title":{"rendered":"You Are What You Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most recent issue of Christianity Today has a wonderful cover article, “A Feast Fit for the King<\/a>,” that examines the current emphasis on healthy, organic, whole food. It offers helpful insights on why Christians should be especially concerned with what food goes into the body, but also why what we eat is not a source of salvation or righteousness. <\/p>\n

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Here’s a question, which I ask myself as well: Why have [we in the church] ignored food for so long? Why are we not attending more seriously to Paul’s injunction to literally “eat or drink … for the glory of God”? Beyond a quick word of thanks before meals, have we seriously considered how our eating and drinking either reveals or suppresses the glory of God? I don’t believe we have. Most of us have been living in a kind of self-absorbed somnolence that may be partly rooted in our own lingering dualism that privileges the soul over the body…<\/p>\n

How shall we use our freedom in Christ? Freedom is never given for license or for self-indulgence. If our freedom ends in mindless consumption, abuse of the earth, exploitation of God’s gifts, and mistreatment of our bodies, then we have allowed our appetites to enslave us again…”<\/p>\n

To read more, click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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